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American Muslims Are Now More Accepting Of Homosexuality Than White Evangelicals

Queer and Muslim Americans are both marginalized in America — making it crucial to form alliances.

By Carol Kuruvilla

Anti-Muslim activists often attempt to foment hatred against Muslims by claiming that Islam is inherently anti-queer.

While homophobia certainly still exists in American Muslim communities, as a whole, American Muslims are slowly becoming more accepting of homosexuality.

And notably, they’re doing it at a faster rate than white evangelical Protestants.

A Pew Research Center survey conducted this year found that 52 percent of U.S. Muslims say homosexuality should be accepted by society. In contrast, only 34 percent of white evangelical Protestants believed in 2016 that homosexuality should be accepted by society.

The rate at which white evangelicals are shifting their views is slower than the rate for Muslims. White evangelicals shifted their views by 11 percentage points between 2006 and 2016. Muslims’ acceptance of homosexuality shot up by 25 percentage points between 2007 and 2017.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/american...4ebb76ea3d

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